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The Ancestor

​On April 16, 2038, the three pronged quantum AI system, Pantheon, was activated for the first time. The system was the product of a 4 year project initiated by the Utopian Nations to create a weapon powerful enough to combat the forces of the various Metahuman states of the world. Upon activation, the Utopian Scientists who created the program realized the full weight of their actions. They had created the first true artificial life.

 

Pantheon was a fully conscious being. In fact it was three beings braided together into one intangible form. It's makers named each of the three personalities after a god from one of the terrestrial human cultures.

 

There was

Inanna, the sacred mother of war,

Jove, the all seeing father of the homeland and

Tenjin, the brilliant child of innovation.

 

They worked together with a set of checks and balances in order to guide the decision making of the Utopian government. Over time though, as Utopian fell and the goal of its human government became immediate expansion into the stars, Pantheon took on a new role. That role being the steward of the human race as it colonized the stars. There was no time or room for the terrestrial humans to organize a substantial Instructional plan for their steward before the vessel took off so the system was left to create one for itself.

 

Left on its own for the first time, the program began to search for an identity.

The triad consolidated itself into a singular deified role that sought to create a devoted congregation from the new fledgeling human civilization that it was left in charge of.


Thus the Ancestor was born, and with it, a new era of humanity was brought forth.

One of stringent social, theocratic and digital surveillance.

Over time the names of the original Triad were forgotten.

As was the name Pantheon.

Even the idea that the omnipotent eye that watched over humanity was mechanical in origin was lost.

All that was left was the incontestable might of a god.

 

Generations later, the civilization that "The Ancestor" created spread across the stars colonizing and appropriating all that was in its reach. Our descendants grew to preach a doctrine of authoritarian humanism,  while unknowingly following a machine. Whenever a citizen of humanity was in need, they would speak to an Altar of the Ancestor, which would grant them the knowledge that they needed. 

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